Writting fight scenes is hard! Hope I did justice.

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"So… if you study in Haven, why did you come to Vale?" asked a small mouse eared faunus with red eyes and combed white hair wearing a black suit with turquoise tie. He must have been just 18 and was already head of human resources.

"To the Vytal Festival, of course!"

"Ok. Checks out… and why work here?".

'To spy on your corrupt asses', he thought. "Well, I am running out of money, and the competition is still some months away".

"I noticed that you've been in the city for a while now… but only recently did you make the paperwork. Care to explain?"

'What did Blake tell me? Suck up to their rules, not their bosses?' "Well, for the most part I've been a carefree person, and I don't feel like I've accomplished much. I guess it took me being broke to understand the importance of organizing my life".

His interviewer eyed him from his chest up. A normal white shirt that was not properly buttoned-up and had the collar up along with a black tie that was way too lose. He would have rejected the monkey faunus if it weren't for the fact that first: The Night Beetle did not evaluate personal presentation on the interview; and two: He liked what he saw in Sun.

"Ok, Mr.… Wukong… finally: Are you expecting any position in particular?"

He then remembered Ruby's exact orders 'You need to apply for a waiter, they have access to the corporate offices on floors 13 to 17 three times a day'. "I think waiter would do".

"Really? But your resume doesn't include the training".

"Yeah, but look at these guns! And my tail gives me balance. I do have the best records in balance of my year, you can check my student records; I'm not lying".

"Hmmmm… Meh, can't be worse than the last guy. Congratulations, Sun. Welcome to the Seido family!". They both shook hands and the mouse Faunus then moved from behind his desk to being next to Sun. The guy was shorter than the monkey faunus by at least 4 inches and had a very light body buil. He stood behind Sun, pulled out a measuring tape, and proceeded to measure and write down his measurements at an impressive speed.

He then moved to his computer and typed all the data he gathered. "Great, now I'll send these, and we'll just have to wait for the shop to make your uniform. Sadly, this process will take some time, your chest is larger than average when compared to your toosh-" A bell rang and a bellhop came in with Sun's new uniform. "Thank goodness, I thought it would never get here! Here you go Sun, we expect you on Monday, first hour!". He finally handed Sun the uniform which he then took slowly. "If you have any doubts just give me a call".

"Thanks, Mr… uh… you never really gave me your name".

The faunus blinked a few times before laughing. "Oh, silly me. Pardon my distracted mind. Call me Maurice".

As they shook hands again, Sun felt that it was weird how during the interview Maurice went from normal and professional to almost cartoony.

Then clock then marked four in the afternoon and Sun was ready to go but stopped when he noticed that Maurice went completely still. It took him some seconds before he moved again, now on hyper mode.

"Oh wow, look at the time! And I am already over with my interviews. How many were they? Two? Six? Ten? Twenty!? Ha Ha! I lost track of you guys".

"You... do know I am the only one here, right?"

Maurice looked at him but said nothing, creeping Sun even further.

"Aaaany way… I think I should be leaving. See you on monday". Just as Sun turned the door handle, Maurice placed a hand on his shoulder and squeezed.

"Where do you think you are going?" He asked coldly and emotionless. Sun felt the pressure grow and was surprised that the little man was actually causing him pain. But again, in a matter of seconds, he returned to his hyper self. "It's four Sun! Which means all new employees get a tour of the hotel and a glimpse at the Seido Industries HQ!".

Maurice dragged Sun through another door which lead to a small presentation room where a giant and bald crocodile faunus, a nerdy looking human with mushroom haircut and thick glasses, and a middle-aged chubby woman sat.

Maurice changed to the professional persona that Sun met. "Thank you all for coming. We are happy to welcome you into our family. And now, without further a due, please follow me".

Throughout the tour, Sun discovered many blind spots he could use to hide things. Many of the guards acted by protocol and only investigated something if it looked out of place in an obvious way. But what brought Sun more curiosity was the lack of security cameras, although this would make the job infinitely easier. "Uh, Maurice, sir… How come there are no-".

"Security cameras?" the mouse faunus finished his question. "For the privacy and commodity of our clients. But don't worry, a stolen item has never left the premises of the hotel. Why, when I was a cleaner during my parole, I got busted stealing used swimsuits before the first guests even noticed".

Everyone stopped on their tracks while they looked at Maurice with disbelief. Not so much as to what he did, but at how nonchalantly admitted it.

Maurice noticed their sudden stop and looked at them not understanding what they were doing. After a few seconds, he seemed to have understood. "Oh, don't worry. I'm cured now! Wait… did I forget to mention our retirement spa, the Pyramid?" everyone just nodded. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out some brochures of what looked like a country house. "Some would call it a 'correctional', but it's actually a therapeutic center that will help you abandon your criminal ways and appreciate all that Seido Industries offers you!".

"And I know what you are thinking!" Maurice's explanation was interrupted by a man in a suit and white hair who arrived with another man. "You can't abuse of the Pyramid as a constant free vacation spot. Not that any of their former visitors have even attempted to do it".

'The famous Hotaru and Ryu that the guys mentioned' Sun deduced.

"Mr. Taakoizu, Mr. Jin! I was just giving our new employees a tour. What brings you here?".

"Maurice, you forgot your medical examination".

"That was… today…?"

"Yes, Maurice. Look!" Hotaru took out a scroll and showed a long list of people. At first Sun thought they might have been employees, but they seemed to be more than those of a regular hotel. But indeed, there was a blinking red picture of Maurice. "Now, go to the lower floor and get yourself checked out. we'll take it from here".

"Oh, thank you Mr. Taakoizu". With a final bow, Maurice proceeded to the employees' elevator and Hotaru turned to look at all of them. His once warm smile was gone as they felt like being judged by his cold stare and were facing the death penalty if he saw anything he didn't like. Sun, specially, felt the sweat forming in his brow, fearing that he might have been discovered.

"Quite a small batch. But it doesn't matter". Hotaru then relaxed and invited them to continue the tour.

Although Sun never learned the names of any of his new co-workers, he was shown the installation in which each of them would be working. The woman was going to be a receptionist, the boy wanted to be a security guard and the crocodile faunus would be in the kitchen on cake decoration duty.

"And finally, Mr. Wukong, allow us to present you our-".

"Mr. Taakoizu! Mr. Taakoizu!" A man wearing a normal black suit came running from the elevator entrance, clearly not an employee. "I must speak with you, please! It's urgent!". Everyone then noticed his unkept dog tail, another faunus.

"I already told him and all of you, I have the week occupied with other matters and I am not changing my-" he was interrupted when the dog faunus dragged him and Ryu to the other side of the dining room. The man, clearly altered by something, kept moving his hands while explaining something. "THEY DID WHAT!?" yelled Hotaru, scaring every guest and worker present.

Scarier, however, was Ryu, who took the dessert trolly with one hand and threw it to the upper level, breaking the door to the rooster room. He seemed to be ready to go on a rampage but was stopped by Hotaru. When he realized that all eyes were on him, he then slowly retreated to the second floor and to the dragon room followed by the faunus.

Hotaru quickly reached the group and offered an explanation. "My deepest apologies. But a very urgent matter requires my attention. Please leave, and we'll see you all on Monday".

Hotaru then quickly ran to the dragon room. All the waiters went to calm the guests and Sun was just left speechless as to what happened.

The doors closed with a booming slam and Hotaru turned to face the now sitting faunus gangster, Cerv.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU LOST A CARGO OF DRUGS AND AMMUNITION!?"

"It was not lost, sir. It was stolen" explained the faunus.

"Really? Aren't you the 'Feared Faunus Cartel of Mistral'?" He asked while circling him. "Aren't you 'The masters of all deals between Vale and Mistral'? I've taken care of all possible competitors and you only had one job: Deliver the goods to Malachite! WHAT! WAS! SO! HARD!?".

"It wasn't just a robbery. It was also an ambush" Hotaru stopped and turned to his direction slowly noticing that Ryu was also staring at him with a hand on his chin "Also, they didn't just take the cargo… the boss was kidnapped… and they sent you a message". The man took a piece of paper out of his coat and handed it to Hotaru.

"Want the goods and the mut back? One million Lien in cash by the end of the month.

Higanbana tavern. Be there!".

"Bandits…" Hotaru crumpled the note and looked at Ryu who nodded his head. He then moved towards the telephone on his desk and picked up the handle. After some time, he spoke "my lord, we need to talk". He then hanged up and they all waited in silence.

After a few minutes, the TV screen turned on and the faunus was presented with an imposing silhouette and reptilian yellow eyes. He had heard the stories from those present at the first meeting, but the tales did not live up to what he was seeing.

"L-l-l-l-lord Onaga?"

"Explanation! NOW!"

He almost fell from his chair, but his explanation started and went on non-stop. "We were carrying the goods through land since air security was getting tough! We didn't want to risk detection; but someone snitched to the bandits and they ambushed us! He told them everything, about Seido, all our partners, operations, you name it!".

"So, you know who this person is?"

"Yes! We did a background check! He was a member of the security ring but called in sick before leaving! When news of the assault came, we knew it was too much for a coincidence! Turns out he was a member from the bandit tribe."

"Bandit tribe?" Then asked Hotaru. "Then you also know who the perpetrators are?"

"Yes, sir… it was the Branwen tribe"

The room fell into silence. Hotaru and Ryu looked at each other, and then at him. "You've done well. Leave".

The faunus was confused. He knew that his gang would be demanding to know what actions would be taken. "But… sir! What should I-?".

"Go! We'll take care of this!" Hotaru then walked towards him, and placed his face directly in front of his. "That is all you need to know". He remained still looking at the screen, then at Ryu and then back at Hotaru. He stood up and walked away slowly, bowing on his way out. But instead of leaving, as instructed, he pressed his ear next to the closed door. He was going to get answers one way or another. But he was not expecting the conversation that followed.

"Kollector, get to my office now! There has been a change of plans" he then heard the phone being smacked back in the base.

Onaga spoke once again. "I told you we should have dealt with them since the beginning!"

"Yes, my lord. I underestimated them. The blame is mine, and mine alone".

"We've been away from Orderrealm and Lei Chen for too long now. We needed that time to move along with my plan!"

"My lord, if I may: Bandits are ruthless, but not undefeatable. Orderrealm needs you more than it needs me. This was my fault, allow me to amend my mistakes".

"Why should I trust you with the elimination of that bandit tribe?"

"They are nothing more than a smaller and more undisciplined version of the seidan resistance. Same modus operandi but without the military objective. It would be like attracting moths to a flame".

After a moment of silence, Onaga spoke again: "What do you have in mind?"

"Recently I received an invitation to an event in Atlas. I planned on ignoring it, but now, on my way there, I will face this problem. Personally".

"I want results, Hotaru! Our cargo, our ally back, the Branwen tribe dead!"

"It shall be done, my lord"

Cerv would have kept listening, but he felt a pair of hands held his wrists on his back as well as his head on a neck hold. He then heard the doors being opened by another guy before being pushed back inside. He fell forward and saw Hotaru kneeling and Ryu sitting on the desk.

"A spy!" Said a raspy voice behind him. One of the people who caught him, Cerv deduced.

"I was not spying, don't listen to them…" when Cerv turned around to face his captors, he was surprised at first with there being only one person. One of the famous Naknada, but his surprise turned into horror once he saw four arms with long fingernails coming out of the man.

"Wha… what…?" He then panicked once his captor pulled out what looked like a chained mace.

"Kollector, stop!" ordered Hotaru.

Cerv looked at the white-haired man once again. He only stood up and began to walk towards him.

"Cerv, Cerv, Cerv. You had your orders. And yet you do this?" He then crossed his arms behind his back while looking at Cerv. "Now you know too much. And we can't have that".

Cerv knew pleading was going to be useless at this point. "What… are you going to do?".

"I believe you've earned yourself sometime in the Pyramid".

Before he could express his confusion, he felt a quick smack on his head and fell unconscious.

"Close the doors and have security take him out. In the meantime, we have some planning to do, Kollector" Hotaru then stopped before looking at the naknada once again "And put your disguise on. You're already turning blue".

"I did nothing! I swear!". Yelled Yang with her hands up. The goon's body fell on the floor again and she could feel the anger coming from the Malachite twins and Junior. Her friends just looking at the disaster on which she stood.

Before Junior could order his men to shoot, Weiss reasoned with him. "She is weaponless! And there was a red level threat!"

"FINE! TALK NOW!"

Once the weapons were lowered, Yang recalled the events that transpiered.

Yang sat on the chair, bored beyond her wildest dreams waiting for her friends to come out. No audio meant she could only read the breaking news.

'Dust prices down by 5%. Strange wind patterns blamed on miners from Atlas. Kahn vs. Kahn, the tale of two fangs. Faunus roleplay considered racist by minor activist groups "We can't monitor couples on their bedrooms" police say'.

The only thing keeping her awake was doing mental commentary on people who went inside. She had already seen a group of five boys with way too much cologne, skintight clothes and shades talking about scoring girls, but most likely walking home alone. Two men and two women who were way too overdressed for a dance club. And three girls who were already drunk in the middle of the day.

She sighed and then saw two men walk in and heading for the scanner. 'Blue Parka at the end of spring? Weirdo. Leather jacket with yellow spikes? Meh, not my vibe. Are they wearing the same shirt model? One blue and the other yellow? Hold it, they actually have the same beard and mustache! Yellow has a ponytail though… and color-coded caps? Meh, anyway, back to my-'.

An alarm began to sound inside the room and both entrances were locked with metal doors. The two guys assumed a fighting pose and got back to back as the walls opened and a total of six guards armed with dust powered machine guns stepped into the vestibule.

"Seems you were right" noted the yellow guy.

"Kind of hurt you didn't trust me" joked the blue one.

As soon the guards opened fire, both men rolled in opposite directions and then sweep kicked two of the guards. The blue guy took his grunt as a shield while the other quickly stood up and grabbed the heads of two other guards to then knock them against each other, he then took the gun from another one and headbutted him, taking the gun and slamming it against the guard's head breaking the weapon in the process. The blue guy grabbed his human shield by the collar and the belt, rotated his body and threw the grunt at the last guard.

Weaponless and feeling like helping neither side, Yang hid behind the couch and just kept watching.

All six guys got up and with a wrist movement, electric brass knuckles came out from their shirt sleeves. They divided in order to fight three against one, but the colored guys were more than ready. Yellow gave a quick succession of five strong punches to the chest of the first, ducked a punch from the second before delivering an uppercut but was kicked on his left abdomen by the third; strong enough to hurt him, but not enough to make him fall.

Blue blocked the punches from two of his opponents, but a powerful punch in his stomach from the third guy sent him crashing into the TV. The screen broke, but the machine was still in one piece. When the guy that punched him came running at him, blue just tore the TV from the wall and smashed the grunt's head with it. Blue then charged at the stunned man, rammed into him and dragged him until they both crashed against another grunt and then the wall, the first guy fell to the ground, finally defeated, while the second received a barrage of punches to the face.

While that happened, Yellow roundhouse kicked one of the grunts and dodged and incoming punch. He grabbed the extended arm of his attacker, punched his elbow and then threw him over his shoulder against the other guy. He turned around to see his friend punching one of his goons and another guard grabbing one of the discarded machine guns.

Yellow then grabbed a chained spear head and threw it at the guy before he could fire. Once the attached itself to the grunt, Yellow yelled 'GET OVER HERE!'. He then pulled the chain and the grunt flew towards him. Before contact was made, Yellow did a flip kick that sent the grunt flying back and crashing to the door, but not breaking it.

"Behind you!" Yelled blue as he finally let his opponent fall. Yellow looked behind and quickly dodge a left hook. He then grabbed the guard by his shoulders, and threw him towards blue who punched his guts. He then grabbed him by the neck and pushed him towards his ally. "Power core is in the abdomen!". Blue broke the scanner and pulled out some wires that still carried electricity and punched the grunt's gut with it.

The guy shook for a few seconds before seemingly blowing up and destroying the metal door that lead to the club.

When some of the smoke dissipated, Yang noticed that the guys had disappeared and went to check on the grunt that apparently blew up. She was surprised, however, when she noticed that the place where blue had punched seemed to be made of metal surrounded by a fake skin. She picked up the guy by his collar in order to get a better look, but stopped and looked to the door when she heard people entering and pointing guns at her.

Knowing what everyone was thinking, she dropped the body and placed her hands in the air while yelling "I did nothing! I swear!".

Yang told everyone present what happened, but left out the mechanical chest part fearing that it could bring her more trouble than anything; specially since her group managed to warn her that Junior was working with Seido.

Feeling like a whole day was wasted, Jaune's team decided to head home. They retrieved their stuff at the exit and felt a little better when they received a text from Ren confirming that 'The monkey ate a beetle'.

Jaune was checking Crocea Mors when he noticed a sticker behind the sheath. It had an address and the message: 'Section 5, first shelf. 8:30 pm tomorrow. Just you and blue. I know what you are looking for'.

Deciding the best course of action was to get away from Seido as soon as possible to plan their next move. Jaune convinced everyone to go back to Beacon.

The water splash on the burlap sack over her head finally woke her up. She coughed and took heavy breaths once the sack was removed from her and she was also thankful that the lights were not so bright as to blind her. Before long, however she was greeted with two female figures: one green haired with dark skin, and an older woman with long black hair and white skin. From behind her, a young man with silver hair walked to step next to the dark-haired woman.

"Wha...? Who…? What is going on?" The woman asked groggily. She then remembered the events that happened before:

She and her counterfeit buddies had just received notice that their organization was allowed into the Seido deal and were celebrating at a tavern in Vacuo. She was drunk, but still able to walk. She was heading home while her friends had long since passed out in the tavern when suddenly a giant tanned man approached her and knocked her out with a single punch. "Please, cooperate" he told her before delivering the blow.

"You… that guy…?" She said slowly.

"Yes, yes; Hazel over did it. But stay focused, girl!" The dark-haired woman told her. She then grabbed her by the chin and raised her head. "We've done this before with others" she then directed her eyes to a pile of burned bodies "So, if you want to walk out of here, I suggest you tell me EXACTLY what I want". The woman then produced a sword that seemed to be made from fire.

The girl looked at her, the fear in her eyes more than obvious. She signed up for easy lien, not criminal honor. She would sing like a bird if needed.